Transylvanian Clarinetist Makes a New Home for Her Music

Monika Woods is a classical clarinetist from Transylvania. After studying clarinet in conservatory for over a decade, she fell in love, started a family, and moved to the Cape in 2006. But the move posed a challenge to her plans for a career as a professional musician.

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Monika Woods in conversation with Dan Richards

Creative Life is edited by Jay Allison and made possible by The Circle of Ten, ten local businesses and organizations committed to local programming on WCAI. This story came to us from our production partners at Atlantic Public Media through their media training program, The Transom Story Workshop in Woods Hole. Dan Richards is a recent graduate from the program For more information go to transom.org

Marie Canaves came to the U.S. from Cuba at age 7, when her family fled the Communist Revolution. Marie had trouble adjusting to America. She grew up to become a visual artist, focusing most of her art on the human figure. Then, in 2013 her parents died within a month of each other and soon after, her brother discovered a family treasure that her parents had saved from their time as exiles. This inspired Marie to explore her Cuban heritage in her art for the first time, and with it, her identity.